"The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy."
― Irving Babbitt
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Sympathy
― Irving Babbitt
More From Irving Babbitt
- "The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people."
- "The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology."
- "Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type."
More In Sympathy
- "We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression."― Confucius
- "They weren’t impatient for the boys to turn into cartoons again. They awarded sympathy, gave compassion. Because deep down they had found parts of themselves in the characters. You said it George."― Audrey Meadows
- "The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community."― William James